Wrist-watch strap



May 17, 1927. w. HANKlNsoN ET AL 1,629,339

WRIST WATCH STRAP Filed Aug. 9, 192

6 I fl M 1 nmnto'as Wsley Jfmfiizmon W 17 and Jacob J JfrzeZeZ @wdfi 4 M5 I Patented May 17, 1927.

UNITED sr WESLEY HANKIN'SON,A1\TD JACOB T. KNEBEL, OF KANSAS CITY,MISSOURI.

WRIST-WATCH STRAP.

Application filed. August 9, 1926. Serial No. 128,189.

Our invention relates to improvements in wrist watch straps, and ourobject is to provide a neat and attractive strap of this characterhaving its margins decorated with ornamental lacings as will hereinafterappear, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 shows the strap attached to av wrist watch. Fig. 2 is a detailedge view showing the two sections of the finished strap.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the parts disclosed by Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail plan view of the two sections of the strap Withoutthe lacings.

' Referring in detail to the different parts, 2 designates one sectionand 4 the companion section of the strap. The section 2 is provided atits ends with loops 6 and 8, the

former of which is e ui ed with a buckle 10 while the loop 8 isadaptedto be attached to one side of a wrist watch A. The strap section 2 isprovided at its ends with laterally projecting shoulders 12 and 14consti- 5 tuting important features of the invention. Said strap section2 is also provided adjacent to the shoulders 12 with an enlargement 16which has a keeperlS mounted thereon.

The companion strap section 4 has a series 3 ceive the tongue of thebuckle 10 when the two sections 2 and 4 are secured around the wrist tohold the watch A in position. The

section 4 is provided at one end with a loop 22 and laterally projectingshoulders 24, which latter like the shoulders 12 and 14 constituteimportant features of the invention. The loop 22 forms convenient meanswhereby the strap section 4 can be attached to the watch at a pointdiametrically opposite the strap section 2.

26 designates lacings which are sewed or otherwise suitably appliedtothe two longitudinal margins of the strap section 2. The la c ngs 26consist of leather or other suitable material and extend from theshoulders 12 to the shoulders 14. Said lacings 126 overlap the marginsof the strap 2 in order to come flush or approximately flush with thesides 28 and 30, respectively, of said shoulders. The lacings 26 alsosecure the ends of the keeper 18 to the enlargement 16.

The strap section 4 is provided with lacing 32, which extends from theshoulders 24 along the longitudinal margins and around one end of saidsection 4, as best of holes 20 any of which are adapted to reshownbyFigs. 1 and 3. The lacing 321s preferably applied in the same manneras the lacings 26 and overlaps the] margins of the section 4. in orderto come flush or apvented from curling up or otherwise getting out ofshape, but sa1d lacmgs lend an ornamental and distinctive appearance tosaid strapsections. It is also apparent that the laterally projectingshoulders 12, 14 and 24' protect the ends of the respective'lacings andby coming flush or approximately flush with. the projectingportions ofsaid lacings enhance the appearance of the finished article.

While we have shown and described the preferred form of our invention wereserve all rights to such changes andmodifications tl'iereof asproperly fall within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is: j

1. A strap having an enlarged portion, a keeper mounted upon saidenlarged portion,

and lacings secured to said strap and holdplace upon said enlarged.tions having an edge approximately flush with the projecting portionsof said lacings. r

4. A strap provided at 1ts narrow margins with laterallyprojectingshoulders, and lacings secured to the strap between saidshoulders and projecting over the adjacent narrow margins of said strap.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures.

WESLEY HANKINSON. JACOB J. KNEBEL.

